Just cooking my first chicken. Put it in breast side down on to the low rack (with difficulty to avoid getting burned). Now having difficulty turning it over! Can one buy special gripping tongs? Any suggestions please?

I too had problems turning, not only chicken but any joint of meat. eventually I bought 2 very wide pronged forks; (about 6 inch in width) stick each either side of the meat etc and you should be totally in control of turning it.

It took me a long time to find these tools, but did so in M & S Food stores.

I just use a large meat fork in one side and an ordinary folk in the other to flip it over, making sure I remove the extension ring first to avoid burns. I managed to turn my turkey last christmas this way no problem.